Thursday, July 31, 2014

2-Thanks to Max Igan @ his Youtube channel:Uploads from thecrowhouse(This is the first time I had ever heard of Max Igan- so many people out there for me still to find, even after all these years of blogging!)

3-And finally thanks to freethinker who let me know the whole show was available

In this program we discuss Zionist terrorism in Gaza
and the current bombing campaign and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
We’ll talk about the lies pushed by the Zionist controlled mainstream on
this issue and the double standards of Israel’s policies. Max also
talks about his visit to the Gaza Strip and the many kind Palestinians
he met there. He tells us how he entered in to the checkpoint ridden
area using one of the many tunnels from the Egyptian side, where he also
met border officers from Hamas. Later, we discuss the monumental lies
and disinformation surrounding World War II, especially what happened to
Germany.

The map tells the truth

Israel has stolen yet more land from the Palestinians in Gaza!How much of this newly stolen land was arable land, where food was produced for the population?

NEW YORK, Jul 30 2014 (IPS) - Amidst an exodus of some 100,000 people from the conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, ongoing fighting in the urban strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk between Ukrainian soldiers and separatist rebels, and talk of more sanctions against Russia, it is hard to focus on the more subtle changes taking place in this eastern European nation.

But while global attention has been channeled towards the political crisis, sweeping economic reforms are being ushered in under the leadership of the newly elected president Petro Poroshenko, who recently brokered deals with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund that have rights groups on edge.

Even before Poroshenko assumed office on Jun. 7,international financial institutions (IFIs) were rushing emergency missions into the country, with IMF European Department Director Reza Moghadam declaring on a Mar. 7 visit, “I am positively impressed with authorities’ determination, sense of responsibility and commitment to an agenda of economic reform.”

This is why Yats quit (or maybe not?) Either way? He did what had to be done.He delivered Ukraine into debt servitude. Debt enslavement

After years of dangling a 17-billion-dollar loan – withheld in part due to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to implement a highly contested pension reform bill that would have raised the retirement age by 10 years, and his insistence on curbing gas price hikes – the IMF has now released its purse strings.

The World Bank followed suit, announcing a 3.5-billion-dollar aid package on May 22 that the Bank’s president, Jim Yong Kim, said was conditional upon the government “removing restrictions that hinder competition and […] limiting the role of state control in economic activities.”

While these reforms include calls for greater transparency to spur economic growth,experts are concerned that Ukraine’s rapid pivot to Western neoliberal policies could spell disaster, particularly in the immense agricultural sector that is widely considered the ‘breadbasket of Europe.’

A quiet land-grab

Ukraine is the world’s third-largest exporter of cotton and the fifth-largest exporter of wheat. Agriculture accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), with vast fields of fertile soil yielding bumper harvests of grain and cereals each year.

According to a 2013 forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ukraine is poised to become the world’s second biggest grain exporter in the world (after the U.S.), shipping over 30 million tonnes of grain out of the country last year.

Who controls the food controls the people...

The World Bank estimates that farmers and agricultural workers made up 17 percent of the country’s labour force as of 2012. And according to the Centre for Eastern Studies, agricultural exports soared in the last decade, from 4.3 billion dollars in 2005 to 17.9 billion dollars in 2012.

Lush soil and a rich agrarian culture do not immediately add up to nationwide dividends. Potential investors have cited“red tape” and “corruption” as hindrances to development, as well as a communist legacy that forbids the sale of land.

But the past decade has seen an abrupt change in Ukraine’s agricultural sector, with foreign investors and agri-business hugely expanding ownership and influence in the country.

According to a report released Monday by the U.S.-based Oakland Institute, over 1.6 million hectares of land have been signed over to multinational companies since 2002, including “over 405,000 hectares to a company listed in Luxembourg, 444,800 hectares to Cyprus-registered investors, 120,000 hectares to a French corporation, and 250,000 hectares to a Russian company.”

A deal brokered between China and Yanukovych prior to the political crisis – now disputed under the present regime – granted Beijing control over some three million hectares of prime farmland in the east, an area about the size of Belgium that totals five percent of Ukraine’s arable land.

This changing climate has been a boon for investors and corporations, with Michael Cox, research director at the investment bank Piper Jaffray, referring to Ukraine as one of the “most promising growth markets for farm-equipment giant Deere, as well as seed producers Monsanto and DuPont.”

Such statements have raised a red flag among researchers and trade watchdogs.

OI Executive Director Anuradha Mital told IPS, “IFIs are imposing Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in Ukraine, which we know – from the experience of the Third World – will undoubtedly lead to severe austerity measures for the people and increase poverty among the Ukrainians.”

Maidumb?

“Ukraine is also one of the 10 pilot countries in the World Bank’s new Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture (BBA) project,” Mittal told IPS, referring to a brand new initiative, still in the development stage, which is connected to the Bank’s controversial Doing Business rankings.

This index has been criticised by numerous groups including the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – comprised of over 176 million members hailing from 161 countries – for favouring low taxes for transnational corporations and lowering labour standards in developing countries as a means of attracting foreign investment.

The Bank itself says the BBA will largely serve as a tool for improving agricultural output.

Agricultural output of profits for big Agribusiness- That is what is being referred to.

“The world needs to feed nine billion people by 2050,” a World Bank spokesperson told IPS.

Bullocks! Profits. Big Oil. Chemicals. And the disgusting frankenfood the GMO'sIMF doesn't care one whit about feeding people. The well being of people. None of that. This article broke my heart, made me so sad and angry and just disgusted. The IMF cares about banking and indebting people because they aren't a charity, they are a private banking institution!

“For small-scale farmers to be more productive and far more competitive, they need access to land, finance, improved seed, fertiliser, water, electricity, transport and markets.

“By identifying and monitoring policies and regulations that limit access of smaller producers to these critical components of success, BBA is being designed as a tool to foster an enabling environment that boosts local and regional agribusinesses,” she concluded.

More Bullocks!

But the OI report’s co-author Frédéric Mousseau says initiatives like the BBA and others exist primarily to pry open Ukraine’s doors, hitherto sealed by its socialist traditions, to foreign capital.

“These reforms sound good on paper, but when you look more closely you see they are actually designed to benefit large multinational corporations over workers and small-scale farmers,” Mousseau told IPS.

“Ranking systems like the BBA push for contract farming, which entails farmers working for corporations, instead of as subsistence producers. We are denouncing this rhetoric, and its attendant struggle between different foreign interests over Ukraine’s resources.”

Research into the impacts of the Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ rankings in eight countries – including Mali, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and the Philippines – has yielded similar results: sharp increases in foreign investments and land-grabbing in a bid to appear more ‘business friendly’.

Seriously, this is heartbreaking stuff :(

Further, Mousseau said, arrangements such as the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine offer glimpses into an agricultural future steered by corporate interests.

“Until now, Ukraine had banned the use of GMOs in the agriculture sector,” Mousseau stated. “So when we anaylsed the EU Association Agreement we were surprised by article 404, which states very clearly that both parties agree to expand the use of biotechnologies.”

Such clauses, experts say, could strengthen existing initiatives such as Monsanto’s Ukraine-based ‘Grain-basket of the Future’ project (which offers 25,000-dollar loans to rural farmers) and Cargill’s 200-million-dollar stake in UkrLandFarming, the eighth largest land cultivator in the world.

These developments give weight to the title of OI’s report, ‘Walking on the West Side’, a reference to the role of Western interests in Ukraine’s unfolding political crisis.

“It is necessary to see this in context of the U.S.– Russia struggle over Ukraine,” Joel Kovel, U.S. scholar and author of over 20 books on international politics, told IPS.

“Geostrategic politics and neoliberal economics fit together within the overall plan …in which global finance capital under American control and neoconservative leadership imposes austerity, seeks dominion over the easternmost portion of Europe, and continues the policy of encircling Russia,” he stated.

This is so sad. So, sickening. My fellow humans when are you, each one of you, going to take back what is rightfully yours? Please stop participating in this system that is actually destroying each and every one of us.
Food is vital to our survival and healthy non mutated food is absolutely imperative. This is why I garden, personally. What are you doing to change the situation? (My reason for blogging endlessly) Please think about these things? This is important. It is vital to our survival as a species. I cannot stress that enough.
Apologies if I sound preachy, but, there it is. Realize we must as a species ensure or survival. Or we will be the guarantors of our own extinction. Breaking free of this system is paramount to our survival.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

I have mentioned the control of Arctic resources previously as one of many reasons for the targeting of Russia by NATO.

So, it is interesting to note that the sanctions are geared towards prohibiting Russia from accessing it's Arctic resources
Before we get to the sanction we are going to FLASHBACK to December 2011. Back more then 2 & 1/2 years ago.... Cause sometimes you have to go back to the future - Pun intended

Some
of the world's richest reserves of the stuff are buried beneath the
beds of the Berents sea, North of Russia and well into the Arctic
Circle. It's estimated that this area holds somewhere around a quarter of all the oil reserves in the world.

*Now, let's check out the sanctions. The "coordinated" sanctions

The United States and Europe kicked off a joint effort on Tuesday
intended to curb Russia’s long-term ability to develop new oil
resources

In
announcing coordinated sanctions, American and European leaders went
beyond previous moves against banking and defense industries in an
effort to curtail Russia’s access to Western technology as it seeks to
tap new Arctic, deep sea and shale oil reserves. The goal was not to
inhibit current oil production but to cloud Russia’s energy future.

The
new strategy took direct aim at the economic foundation of Russia,
which holds the largest combined oil and gas reserves in the world.

The
growth of the oil industry in the last two decades has powered Russia’s
economic and geopolitical resurgence since the collapse of the Soviet
Union and enriched allies of President Vladimir V. Putin. Russia pumps
about 10.5 million barrels of oil a day, making it among the largest
producers

“The biggest edge that Western energy companies still have is their
technological edge — that’s why these sanctions have the potential to
have significant impact,” said Michael A. Levi, an energy expert at the
Council on Foreign Relations. “Chinese companies can’t step in and
provide shale technology where U.S. companies are blocked. They can
provide capital; they can provide people. They can’t fill in on the
technology front.”

The technology cutoff could be important because Russia is only now at
the early stages of developing new Arctic, deep sea and shale resources.

Europe has still not gone as far as the US, however, Europe is clearly run by a bunch of idiotic sychophants & toadies, who are, as I had feared willing to harm the entire European populace to appease Washington.

European governments moved ahead despite concerns that Europe would pay
an economic price for confronting the Kremlin more aggressively. While
their actions went far beyond any previously taken against Russia over
the Ukraine crisis, they were tailored to minimize their own costs. The
arms embargo, for instance, applies only to future sales, not to the
much-debated delivery by France of Mistral-class helicopter carriers
that resemble bigger aircraft carriers. And the energy technology
restrictions do not apply to Russian natural gas, on which Europe relies
heavily.

The six parliamentarians travelling on the
mission, which returns to Canada on Thursday, are: Liberal MPs Carolyn
Bennett and John McCallum, Conservative MPs Randy Hoback, Ted Opitz and
David Sweet and Liberal Sen. Grant Mitchell.

Fogel also made no excuses for the fact that the view they'll get of the
conflict will be one-sided, with briefings provided by Israeli
government and military officials.

"But for us, the issue is very much focused on what Israel has had to endure"

What Israel has had to endure?

What is that exactly?
The gift of inhabited land from the criminal UN?
All the while starving, killing and displacing the inhabitants?
While having the backing of the NATO global tyranny army?
What is it that Israel has to endure?

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

I cannot believe they are still 'wagging the dog' with this psyop?Seriously. I covered this so long ago. It's baloney. Plain and Simple. And yet, here it is July 29/14 and Caesar is still making the rounds

A Syrian defector (not) who smuggled out thousands of photos of mutilated
corpses, showed some of those images in Washington on Monday and said
they depicted prisoners who were tortured and killed by the security
services of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The presentation to
a small group of reporters and researchers at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum marked the first time that the defector, identified only
as Caesar, has appeared publicly to answer questions about a trove of
materials seen by human rights organizations as evidence of war crimes
committed by Assad.

Coincidence? Not. We are witnessing a smear campaign against Syria being put forth by Qatar.

H/T commenter
simone lagareJanuary 21, 2014 at 3:59 AM

Please people get on to Social Networking site and POST! Call these
photos of torture that are making the rounds on the MSM BULLSHIT they
come from QATAR!

More stories. So very reminiscent of the chemical weapons psy op- Images and allegationsBriefest digression and then we will move on-
To this very day do we really know if any chemical attack was launched near Damascus?
Relinking because this went unnoticed- Analysts question US intelligence on alleged chemical attack

Experts agree that the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital of
Damascus could not have happened the way the US government contends

The attack could not have happened the way the US government contends.If it happened at all?

In such a timely fashion..... what appears today? ‘Evidence’ put
together by the Qatar monarchy to manage your reality. If you will just
believe unflinchingly. And just as the US showed it’s deceit and
dishonesty. Oh but never mind there is torture ya know?

The report was commissioned by the Gulf state of Qatar, which backs the Syrian rebels.

The report was commissioned by Qatar, a backer of the murderous mercs.That's red flag number 1!

The report is based on evidence from an unnamed informant, a
photographer who claims to have defected from the Syrian military
police. Identified as ‘Caesar' to protect his identity, the informant
said he had smuggled photographs and files out of Syria on memory sticks
to a contact in the Syrian National Movement.

He claims that the smuggled data, which includes some 55,000 digital
images, documents the deaths of 11,000 detainees in custody at the hands
of the Syrian government from March 2011 until August 2013.

Some of the photographs show emaciated, bloodstained corpses bearing
signs of torture. Others show bodies with eyes missing, while there are
signs of strangulation or electrocution on others.

‘Caesar' claims they died in captivity before being taken to a military hospital to be photographed.

Claims photographs taken in a 'military' hospital.

That's red flag #3

If 'Caesar' is an insider. With insider knowledge. Why doesn't he have photos, images, taken where the detainees were held? And where all this torture is alleged to have taken place? An insider should certainly have that capability? Why would an insider present info from the outside? Because from what I have read there are no images of victims in captivity. No images of torture as it is happening.
Oh and why not take actual hard files? If you had access you could have taken some before you fled.
Why didn't 'Caesar' take actual hard copies of info?

No images of torture in captivity- Unlike Abu Ghraib, right?

Abu Ghraib- images from an insider

All images taken of the deceased in an alleged military hospital?But nothing to show where these crimes were to have taken place- Unlike Abu Ghraib?

There is more. Ceasar's story just doesn't add up. I will elaborate.....
From this article
quoting 'Ceasar'

"The reason for photographing executed persons was twofold. First to
permit a death certificate to be produced without families requiring to
see the body, thereby avoiding the authorities having to give a truthful
account of their deaths; second to confirm that orders to execute
individuals had been carried out."

Permit a death certificate to be produced? Why would this (photo
taking) be required? How would images be necessary for this? (the
assumption is that these are Syrian citizens, but, that is not
necessarily the case)
If these wereany of the vast foreign fighters that may have been incarcerated? What families
would be required to see these bodies? Saudi families? Tunisian
families? Chechen families? Libyan families? French families? Brits?
Canadians? Americans? etc., etc.,
And if these are images of Syrian citizens it would make more sense to
me that these are indeed images taken by the hired killers. They have
been killing so many Syrian citizens all along.

As for all the other claims:
"Military hospital"? sufficiently vague. How many militarized hospitals
are controlled by the mercs and NGO’s? Perhaps these images were
produced in some Israeli hospital, who really knows?
How many Syrian civilians have the mercs tortured, maimed, raped and killed?
How many persons have the mercs mutilated and then took pics of the
very atrocities they committed?. Their handiwork? Including organ
eating?
I am quite certain our Qatari backed military police defector could get
his hands on plenty of those images? There are so many of them available
on line. One can only imagine the private holdings of the merciless
(captagon high) hired killers?

"The former prosecutors said they were satisfied there was "clear
evidence, capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of
law, of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the agents
of the Syrian government. It would support findings of crimes against
humanity and could also support findings of war crimes against the
current Syrian regime."

There might be evidence of torture? Goodness knows there has been enough
reports of atrocities by the rebels. Mass killings. Use of chemical
weapons. Beheadings and more. But is there any real evidence of
connecting the torture to the Syrian government or Syrian officials? Who
conducted the torture?
Important stuff. None of it addressed by these allegations

The team said they found the informant and his evidence to be credible after "rigorous scrutiny." The images were also examined and authenticated by three forensic science experts, the Guardian said.

The images are most likely real. But that doesn't tell us where? When? Who?

I find this Chicago Tribune piece- Odd? Disconcerting? Considering we are in the 100 year anniversary of WW1 and knowing how history repeats, because we aren't told any real factual history this editorial reads like a real call to war! A reason the US simply must act.

"The Great War" and "The war to end all war" proved to be
neither. The conflict that would bleed to death some of Earth's proudest
empires - while killing 16.5 million soldiers and civilians - later
would be christened World War I to distinguish it from the next, even
deadlier slaughter. WWI also created a precedent and an image: If you
wonder why Europe today relies on the U.S. and not, say, Brazil or China
to help protect Ukraine, the answer traces back a century, to one
battle in which American doughboys helped repel Germans grinding toward
Paris.
One hundred years ago this week, the interlocking
machinery of European alliances creaked into action: Austria-Hungary
declared war against Serbia on July 28; Russia mobilized to defend the
Serbs; Austria's ally, German Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern, declared war
against his cousin, Russian Czar Nicholas Romanov II; ... War would
ensnare France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire and eventually the U.S.On Aug. 2, 1914, the Tribune editorial board wrote a piece titled,
"The twilight of the kings." It is trenchant and lyrical, foreshadowing
not only the war's "feudal slaughter" but also sclerotic monarchies,
after centuries of family rule, finally yielding to democracies: "The
republic marches east in Europe." That editorial's false prediction:
"Western Europe of the people may be caught in this debacle, but never
again."

So 100 years ago the Chicago Tribune editorial team makes a "false prediction" and they are going to engage in this war spin, yet again? Have they not learned at all?

"Twilight" reflected an America reluctant to join
another continent's fight. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in
1916 because "he kept us out of war." By April 1917, he no longer could.
Submarine warfare had torpedoed U.S. neutrality.
The rest of
America's 20th century - and global expectations of this country in the
21st - flowed straight from the languid waters of a river in France.
In summer 1918, at the Second Battle of the Marne, forces of
France, the U.S., the United Kingdom and Italy repulsed a strong German
offensive. The Americans, fresher than their war-exhausted comrades,
tipped the battle that tipped the war: In the words of Tribune
correspondent Floyd Gibbons, "I never saw men charge to their death with
finer spirit." After the Allies secured victory on Aug. 6, their
muscular counteroffensive took only 97 days to break the German Empire.
Footnote to history: Most of what Americans learned early on about
the Second Battle of the Marne came from Gibbons' only weapon, his
notebook. He had wangled his way to the front, where reporters weren't
permitted. As he crawled to aid a wounded major, the third German bullet
to hit him took out his left eye. For his heroism, France decorated
civilian Gibbons with its military Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) with
Palm.For Americans the war lasted only 16 months and didn't
scar their soil or their cities. And while any casualty causes
suffering, the U.S. death toll of 117,000 was less than 1 percent of the
total carnage.The U.S. was more than Europe's military
rescuer. (Really?)The old continental notion of invincible monarchies - of noble
empires as the world's organizing principles - lay in ruin. And if the
war itself hadn't wrought enough human havoc, the mobility of armies
during and after it helped spread an influenza pandemic that killed 50
million to 100 million people - perhaps 5 percent of Earth's human
population.
As all of this settled, one nation stood strongest:
The war effort had made America a greater industrial, financial,
naval and diplomatic power. Herbert Hoover's American Relief
Administration, which provided food to millions of starving Europeans in
23 nations, reinforced Wilson's dictum when the U.S. entered the war:
This country wanted no tangible gain from its outcome. Wilson instead
sought to "make the world safe for democracy."
Instead of
territorial gain, the U.S. had earned a vast reputational gain. In the
eyes of the world, the formerly isolationist Americans were strong,
resolute, and willing to pay their own blood and treasure to buy the
freedom of others.
So when subsequent menacing "isms" - fascism and communism - threatened Europe, Europeans turned again to the Americans.The U.S. most notably answered that call in the war for which this
year marks another anniversary - World War II started 75 years ago, in
1939.
In succeeding decades, with U.S. involvement in the
growth of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in a long list of
geopolitical crises, America's service to Europe has exacted high costs.
What was once the most self-reliant continent now sniffs smoke and
looks west, trusting that if fire erupts, America will strike it.This page often criticizes affluent European countries for refusing
to spend more on their military preparedness.(straight out of the NATO PR machine )The collapse of the
Soviet Union gave Europe essentially the same sense of calm that had
made a massive war unthinkable before World War I. Oxford University war
historian Margaret MacMillan writes in The Wall Street Journal of how
that war brutalized Europeans who "had grown accustomed during the
largely peaceful 19th century to think that peace was the normal state
of affairs."Today the guns of August that savaged
poppy-dotted fields in 1914 echo faintly in wheat fields strewn with
airliner wreckage and body parts. Crisis in Ukraine has startled those
in the West who had come to see Russia as subdued, tamed.Again, a Europe unable and unwilling to resolve its disputes turns to
Washington, where politicians are unable and unwilling to agree on how
aggressively America should lead.

I find this a truly frightening editorial. And wonder at the agenda of the authors at the Chicago Tribune?
Please share your thoughts?

Dutch authorities have criticised Ukraine for
releasing information 'too early' and say they do not know how Ukraine
obtained the dataThe Independent leads a reader to believe the issue investigators have is with early release of information, but, that is not the case. Kiev's source is under scrutiny? And the so called information is unsubstantiated.

Flight MH17 was brought down by shrapnel that caused “massive
explosive decompression,” analysis of the black box recorders has found.

The results, given today by Ukrainian security official Andriy
Lysenko, have, however, left Dutch officials stunned as they did not
expect the "premature" announcement.

His source however, is under scrutiny after the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) confirmed they did not give the information to Ukraine.

ECAC
document on Code of Conduct on Cooperation in the Field of Civil
Aviation Accident/Incident Investigation, with a few additions by the
ECAC, fall to Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil
Aviation. This ECAC code was signed onto by Ukraine in Aug. 2013.

A few things to note in Annex 13.

5.6 The investigator-in-charge shall have unhampered access to the
wreckage and all relevant material, including flight recorders and ATS
records, and shall have unrestricted control over it to ensure that a
detailed examination can be made without delay by authorized personnel
participating in the investigation.

5.7 Effective use shall be
made of flight recorders in the investigation of an accident or an
incident. The State conducting the investigation shall arrange for the
read-out of the flight recorders without delay.

Access the
crash site was restricted. The investigators were held in Kiev by the
Ukrainian gov. due to safety reasons caused by their own military.When
investigators reached the site, they were chased away with live fire by
Ukraine's military. Also at the train station inspecting the bodies.
ATS
records have been seized by Ukraine's military and have not been seen
since. The onboard flight recorders are not being read-out to the
public, why? The law states 'without delay'. It does not say wait till
we can compiles averything, it says now.
Has it been established
even who is in charge and what state is to lead the investigation. In
annex 13, these are also requirements that should have been publicly
stated by now.

This whole thing is in voilation of the law, a complete clusterfck, and will turn into a complete cover-up for mass murder.

That's correct readers the parties (US/Kiev junta) with the most to hide have been all along impeding the MH-17 investigation!

Ukrainian government troops are trying to retake control of the region around the crash site

Rather then allow the investigators in the Ukraine government decides this is the time to 'retake control' of the region? Really?

Sergey V. Lavrov, said on Monday that the United Nations should
guarantee security in the area, and he called on Ukraine to respect a United Nations Security Council resolution of July 21 that called on all parties to refrain from any action that would complicate the investigation.

Yes, Ukraine should respect the resolution and yet the junta in Kiev is not. Why?

This article from the other day, makes the fascist Kiev agenda quite clear. Quite explicit and this is not a Russian media reporting this. This is the NYT's

-Just hours after the Malaysian government reached an agreement with
Ukrainian separatists on Sunday over access to the crash site-The Ukrainian military launched an operation to recapture the debris
fields, again stalling international efforts to secure the site.

The reasoning from Kiev for this action is absurd. The rebels had made an agreement with Malaysia, they secured the site, they got the bodies onto trains. They saved the black boxes without Kiev.
So, any excuse making out of Kiev is pure and utter nonsense.

However, below is a sensible statement as to why Kiev is blocking access and destroying the crash site.

Alexander Borodai, confirmed that government troops were advancing.“The
attempts to clear militia from the crash site irrefutably show Kiev is
trying to destroy evidence,” he told reporters in Donetsk

Never heard of this presstitute previously. Who can keep track of them all? A dime a dozen like any other cheaply made product. Oh, my! Did I use an adhominem to describe this alleged journalist?
Why yes I did! "Presstitute". Obviously a spin off on prostitute- someone who does what ever is asked- for payment.

Except with Cathy Young, not a journalist, the label - Presstitute- fits. She did whatever asked, for money. And she put her name to it! I read her entire diatribe. It can't be taken seriously. It's a stream of smears, attacks, derisions, adhominem, hysterics etc
It's not factually based. It's not honest. And if you really are into self abuse, at least on par with what I put myself through daily reading the newsiness to sift through the truthiness... To finally extract something that seems logical and makes some actual sense. Feel free to read her "work"Putin's Pal

Stephen Cohen was once considered a top Russia historian. Now he publishes odd defenses of Vladimir Putin

Cathy Young is going to tell you he is no longer a top Russian historian.

She tells us " he is a lifelong leftist hack"

"His antipathy to Yeltsin led him to sympathize with the views of those Russians who saw their country during the 1990s as “semi-occupied by foreigners" As if that is an untruth? Russians saw their country as semi-occupied because it is their country to see that way and is, as a matter of fact, true.

The piece she referenced as a 'odd defence" of Putin has almost nothing to do with Putin. I know, because I linked that article here sometime ago.In this post from July 01/14- The article is titled -

Read the article. Read it again, if you already read it. There is no defence of Mr Putin. And it's a dam excellent article

Cathy Young, lies abut the Cohen article immediately.And then goes on to write what is at its core a smear piece. She cannot factually rebut the information presented by Mr Cohen in his previous article. She doesn't even really try, rather, she writes a lengthy article attacking Mr Cohen. Denigrating his previous work. His political leanings.She engages in ad hominem. She builds strawman after strawman and tears them down.She uses red herrings. There are others but just naming a few tactics will assist in understanding exactly what Cathy Young has done and what she is attempting to accomplish in using disinfo tactics

Arguments of this kind focus not on the evidence for a view but on the
character of the person advancing it; they seek to discredit positions
by discrediting those who hold them. It is always important to attack
arguments, rather than arguers, and this is where arguments that commit
the ad hominem fallacy fall down.

It is a fallacy of distraction, and is committed when a listener/reader
attempts to divert an arguer from his argument by introducing another
topic. This can be one of the most frustrating, and effective, fallacies
to observe.

A straw man argument is one that misrepresents a position in order to
make it appear weaker than it actually is, refutes this
misrepresentation of the position, and then concludes that the real
position has been refuted. This, of course, is a fallacy

There is always information linked in the sidebar to help us discern.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing thecountry to danger. It works the same in any country."

Dragging the people to war is what Cathy Young is doing with her 'work' Propaganda is a fact of life in the West.

Finally, I know many of you are familiar with
disinfo techniques and propaganda. But this Slate article is a perfect
reminder that disinfo is constant. Incessant. And we have to put our
critical thinking caps on to get through the stinking piles of shit that
are passed off to us as journalism

We have received
information that a group of fighters have left Syria with the aim of
carrying out terror attack in the West and Norway was specifically
mentioned among their targets,

I would think if they know the mercs have 'left Syria' and are heading to Norway.... then this could be prevented if someone wants to prevent such an incident from taking place?However? If some interested parties (NATO) wanted to create a justification for air attacks on Syria and likely Iraq, then a false flag in Norway is ideal. The new leader of NATO can then showcase his "huntdown" skills while presenting himself as heroic. A man in charge! Spouting meaningless nonsense at the traumatized population of his very own home country.

Yah, this could work out beautifully as far as psychological operations go.

This explains the choice of a Norwegian and the possibility of a false flag attack as justification for big NATO movement in this part of the world.

NATO needs to
become more watchful about defending its members' security, including in
the Arctic, because of the 'completely new' situation created by
Russia's behavior towards Ukraine, Norway's defense minister said in an
interview.

But Norway's Ine Eriksen Soereide told Reuters
that Russia's actions raised broader questions about NATO's collective
defense - significant comments from a country that borders Russia and is
as keen as Moscow to tap Arctic minerals, oil and gas.

At a time when most NATO members are failing
to meet the alliance's target of spending 2 percent of economic output
on defense, Norway maintains it is investing 1.6 percent, while NATO
figures put Oslo's ratio slightly lower, at 1.4.

Soereide
said Norway would not cut its defense budget in coming years -
especially since it has committed to buy 52 F-35 fighter jets from
Lockheed Martin, of which it has already ordered 16.

Police said the airspace ban applied only to smaller private and
recreational flights over the centre of the city in western Norway.

Norway is not an EU member but is part of the Schengen area, which
includes 26 European countries that have abolished passport and other
types of border controls for people travelling within the group of
nations.

Update #3- The date for the alleged terror attack is tomorrow! July 28/14From this article

"Officials suspected an attack could occur on July 28 "

07/28/14 = A total of seven, sevens.

If you aren't into the numerological aspect of this date. Think of this from the marketing perspective The attack/trauma could be reinforced through the repetition of the 7/7's.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the
Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW
issues for decades. He manages the world's largest private intelligence
organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by
security issues. His business experience and interests are in energy and
defense technology. We’ll begin discussing flight MH17 that went down
in the Ukraine.

To each their own. I have never been a fan of his work, have never heard the man speak previously and remain unimpressed. Actually somewhat disturbed?
Give a listen and leave your impressions.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Arseniy
P. Yatsenyuk, a "pro-Western technocrat" who has guided the Ukrainian
government through the tumultuous months since the ouster of President
Viktor F. Yanukovyvch, resigned abruptly on Thursday, after the
governing coalition of Parliament collapsed.

“I
declare my resignation in connection with the collapse of the coalition
and blocking of government initiatives,” Mr. Yatsenyuk said from the
rostrum of Parliament, according to Ukrainian news services.

Is this an orchestrated move to present the Ukrainian government as ‘besieged’

The Ukrainian Cabinet, which includes Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, resigned on Thursday, he said. Yatsenyuk, who made the announcement to parliament, cited the "collapse" of the coalition running the besieged government

*Read below and you will get the idea that this was a planned, expected move

The government crumbles when American military advisers are headed to Ukraine?-

Ukraine's prime minister announced today that he is resigning after two parties said they were withdrawing from the ruling coalition.

"I am announcing my resignation in connect with the collapse of the coalition," Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said, adding Parliament could no longer do its work.

The Associated Press adds:

"The nationalist Svoboda party and the Udar party led by former boxer Vitali Klitschko pulled out of the group of legislators

Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov said it was up to Udar and Svoboda to propose a candidate for temporary prime minister to lead the government until early parliamentary elections can be held."

Udar and Svoboda to propose a temporary prime minister to lead the government until elections?

Guaranteeing yet another western backed technocrat/ fascist thug to be in place.

Maybe it will be Klitschko, himself ? Recall that Victoria F the EU Nuland thought he needed to gain experience, which is why she wanted Yats, but, who knowsmaybe he has now gained some 'experience'?

Flashback!

Perhaps it's simply Klitschko's 'turn' to play leader?

Updated begins-U.S.: Russia firing artillery at Ukraine military

The Obama administration is accusing Russia of firing artillery to
hit Ukrainian military sites and planning to send pro-Russian
separatists more lethal weaponry.
The State Department says the
U.S. has evidence that Russia is shelling Ukraine from sites inside
Russia. Spokeswoman Marie Harf also says the U.S. has new evidence
Russia intends to deliver "heavier and more powerful multiple rocket
launchers" to separatists battling Ukrainian forces in the east of the
country.
Harf declined to provide details or elaborate on the
evidence because she said she could not get into intelligence "source
and methods."

Has evidence. But, could not elaborate.

"I think this is a fully expected and planned development," said Balazs
Jarabik, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. "The president and the government coalition looked for ways to
clear the legal way for an early election, as they are under a lot of
pressure from Maidan and the public."

When he took office, Yatsenyuk's administration was expected to be a
brief one because it was taking over with the government almost broke
and facing the likelihood of adopting unpopular measures to satisfy
conditions for rescue loans from the International Monetary Fund. It
succeeded in landing the IMF bailout and last week IMF officials said
the government was meeting almost all its financial targets.

The Yats resignation- Not unexpected, at all. Yats was just empowered long enough to enslave the Ukrainians to the IMF's austerity. Where is Poroshenko in all this?

Ukraine's Security
Council said on Wednesday preliminary information indicated that
missiles which brought down two government fighter jets over eastern Ukraine were fired from Russia.

"Two of our jets were hit at an altitude of 5,200 meters. According
to preliminary information, the missiles were launched from the
territory of the Russian Federation," the council said in a statement

A far lower altitude then MH-17 which was NOT shot down by separatists. No even accidentally
Lie, lie and lie again.

A spokesman for Ukraine's military operations said the planes were
downed near Savur Mogila, a burial mound in the Shaktersky region where a
memorial marks ambushes by the Soviet army on occupying Nazis during
World War II.

"They were downed not by terrorists," said Andriy Lysenko, spokesman
for the National Security and Defense Council, using the government's
term for the separatists.

There was no immediate response from Russian officials.

As reported in the earlier post- Is it true? Is it more fabrications?

Igor Strelkov, who is now in charge of the rebel ranks in the eastern
city of Donetsk, said the separatists had brought down one plane and
that the pilot had ejected. He gave no further details.

MUMBAI: The ministry of civil aviation's claim that there was no Air India flight near the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.

Minutes before the crash caused by a missile strike, the AI pilots had
also heard the controller give the Malaysian aircraft MH17 what is
called "a direct routing". This permits an aircraft to fly straight,
instead of tracking the regular route which is generally a zig-zag track
that goes from one ground-based navigation aid or way point to another.

Soon after the tragedy, the media picked up data from flightradar24, a
live flight tracker website which showed the AI aircraft in the
vicinity. But the next day, on Friday, the civil aviation ministry
issued a statement that "there was no Air India flight near the
ill-fated Malaysian plane at the time of the incident".

Within the next few weeks, a group of Defense Department
representatives who specialize in strategy and policy will head to Kiev
to evaluate specific programs that the United States may want to help
bolster, said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

Their objective is to work with Ukrainians to “shape and establish an enduring program for future U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian military through subject-matter expert teams and long-term advisers,” he said.

The news, of having no evidence, came out late in the day. Guaranteeing a reduced media audience reach.
That acknowledgement will be swept under the rug in light of what is breaking as this time.
So, here we are yet again. Almost a week to the day that the MH-17 fell from the sky and the subsequent officially spun, completely unsubstantiated, conspiracy theory narrative fell apart

Two Ukrainian military fighter jets have been shot down in the east, according to the country's Defence Ministry.

The Sukhoi-25 fighters were shot down over an area called Savur Mogila.

Defence Ministry spokesman Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky said the planes might have been carrying two crew members each.

Ukraine defence ministry spokesman says two fighters were shot down and each plane MIGHT have been carrying two crew members? Don’t they know?

I find this beyond odd, considering Russia identified A Sukhoi 25 as the plane flying near MH-17?
Are the Ukies getting rid of evidence? Planes and pilots involved in the MH-17 incident?
A question that has to be considered?

Nearly six days after the attack that brought down Malaysia Air Flight
MH17, the plane’s nearly 20-year-old pair of “black boxes” have been
delivered to Malaysian authorities. The handover was the result of an
agreement negotiated between Ukrainian separatist leader Alexander
Borodai and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Now the work begins to
free the boxes’ flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders to
reveal what they know.

Nearly 20 year old pair of black boxes? I read through this article and take away a perception of the main stream media prepping to down play the findings or even go so far as claim the boxes were tampered with by the anti-fascist groups .

Flight 17’s “loaf” modules, as the black boxes are sometimes described
in the aviation business, are designed to withstand a tremendous 3,400
Gs worth of impact.

And as invulnerable as they may appear, such black boxes aren’t immune
to tampering. If the units are correctly hooked up to a power source and
allowed to run, the data on them can be rather easily overwritten in
the same way that you might record over a VHS tape.

Seeds being sown.... I find it implausible with all the people on the ground around the crash site that anyone would be able to tamper with the boxes. MSM always planting seeds of deception

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The intelligence officials were cautious in their assessment, noting
that while the Russians have been arming separatists in eastern Ukraine,(yet another claim made by the US that has never been proven)
the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot down the
passenger jet came from Russia"

I am going to ignore all the wild speculation these mouthpieces engaged in and cut to the chase!In big bold lettering because I want this easily readable to all

"the officials said they did not know who fired the missile"

"In terms of who fired the missile, "we don't know a name, we don't know a
rank and we're not even 100 per cent sure of a nationality"

"The officials made clear they were relying in part on social media
postings and videos made public in recent days by the Ukrainian
government, even though they have not been able to authenticate all of
it"

Have they authenticated any of it?

For example, they cited a video of a missile launcher said to have
been crossing the Russian border after the launch, appearing to be
missing a missile.

But later, under questioning, the officials acknowledged they had not
yet verified that the video was exactly what it purported to be.

The missile launcher that US intelligence had claimed crossed the Russian border was shown in the video presentation by Russia

*Because what this admission all boils down to is that nothing the US has previously claimed as fact can be verified as truth, fact or even correct!*And finally, from the linked news article. Last paragraph!

"On Monday, President Barack Obama said (directly quoted) the Malaysia Airlines plane "was
shot down over territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists in
Ukraine." He also said Russia has both trained the separatists and
"armed them with military equipment and weapons, including anti-aircraft
weapons."

Obama LIED. He LIED. Many people died for these lies.
I will embed the Russian presentation below. I will also include one from the US representative.

1.Depriving all citizens of their innate human rights2.Traumatizing citizens with state sponsored acts of tyranny the news of such occurences quickly spread like any other venereal disease via the presstitutes3. Justifying bloated security budgets4. Eavesdropping on your private lives5. Snooping through finances6. Impeding your right to travel freely

I am sure the readers can think of more rights being trampled because of the terrorism meme.

A study co-published by Human Rights Watch and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute. (I am no fan of HRW- they do the bare minimum necessary to present themselves as a human rights org- So, it was likely a good thing that another group was involved)

Illusion of Justice

Illusion of Justice describes a number of prosecutions that implemented “radicalization” during a sting operation. In each of the selected cases below, a government agent or informant identified a young man who expressed a controversial political or religious opinion, and implemented a sting operation based on those opinions. In no case was there an identified nexus to suspected criminal conduct.

In one case in 2009, the subject of an HBO documentary premiering this week, an FBI informant met James Cromitie, a 45 year-old African-American man, outside a mosque in Newburgh, New York. The informant, under the instruction of his FBI handler, probed Cromitie with questions about jihad and his opinions on world politics. Having heard his target’s controversial opinions, the informant continued to push, eventually offering Cromitie $250,000 to participate in a fake attack. After losing his job at Walmart, Cromitie accepted the offer.

In a 2012 case from Chicago, an FBI undercover agent began targeting Adel Daoud in an online chat room shortly after his 18th birthday. He was not a member of a terror cell, or seeking one out. Still, Daoud had questions that he posed online about Islam and jihad. The undercover online agent answered his questions, offering responses that strung Daoud along into a violent plot which he and the agent planned together. Daoud was arrested in front of a bar in downtown Chicago, having attempted to detonate a jeep full of false explosives that he drove downtown. The FBI provided Daoud with the jeep, fake explosives, and driving directions.

And in a 2004 case in New York City, a government informant targeted Matin Siraj, a Muslim teen with documented mental health problems. The informant, who met Siraj through his regular surveillance of a Bay Ridge mosque and bookstore, began by speaking with the young man about politics, and eventually showed Siraj pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib. “There were articles and photos of children mangled or decapitated or burnt alive,” Siraj wrote to me. Over the course of a year, the informant developed a fatherly relationship with Siraj, as they developed a plot together to attack the 34th Street Herald Square subway station. Siraj never agreed to finally execute the plot, defaulting to a lookout position. He told the informant, “I have to, you know, ask my mom’s permission.”

Think about this?

War is .....

WAR IS THE CONTINUATION OF STATE POLICY, BY OTHER MEANS

WAR IS A POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN WHICH VIOLENCE IS USED TO BEND THE WILL OF YOUR ENEMY TO THAT OF YOUR OWN

Stop being Manipulated by the Elites

For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves [outlaws] and then punish them.´ - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

Resource: Ukraine Military Marker

How your brain works

“‘Each thought and behavior is embedded within the circuitry of the neurons, and…neuronal activity accompanying or initiating an experience persists in the form of reverberating neuronal circuits, which become more strongly defined with repetition”

Richard Restak

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Edward Bernays: Perception Management it is a Reality

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society,"

"Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . . In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

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